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Frederick P. Rose Hayden Planetarium Director Neil deGrasse Tyson coined the term "Manhattanhenge" about a decade ago, and he talks about how he came up with the name in a new video. By the way, the next Manhattanhenge occurs on Thursday, July 11, before sunset (which happens at 8:25 pm)!

A new study led by Shaena Montanari, a recent graduate of the Museum's Richard Gilder Graduate School and a comparative biologist, may help researchers understand why massive marsupials in Australia became extinct.

To err is human, even if you’re a scientist. In this podcast, astrophysicist Mario Livio discusses the interesting scientific mistakes made by famous scientists, the subject of his new book “Brilliant Blunders.”

In 1923, in Inner Mongolia, a young paleontological assistant on a fossil-finding expedition came upon “the superb skull of a gigantic beast,” as expedition leader Roy Chapman Andrews described it. It was the skull of Andrewsarchus, a cast of which on the Museum's fourth floor.

Lonesome George, the world-famous Pinta Island tortoise who was the last of his kind when he died in June 2012, will be preserved in consultation with Museum scientists and will be on display at the Museum for a limited time starting this winter before he is returned to the Galápagos.